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WOOOHOOO I KNEW SOMEONE READ DARWIN ON TRIAL!
A book is not a living thing. A book doesn't mutate and reproduce...
Do you believe there are germs around you? Do you believe there are single celled organisms?
Do you believe things can be born with mutations? Do you think things can reproduce? Do you think things can pass on mutations to their offspring?
Most importantly, do you believe earth is 6000 years old? If so...I can see why you don't believe in evolution. If a person is trapped in a room with no windows or lights for their entire life - from birth, by themselves, they would think it's pitch black everywhere. If someone came into their pitch black room with no windows that they have been living in for 30 years and some how communicated with them and told them you could see things with your eyes when you leave this place, the person would deny it.
There are so many factors contributing to the evolution of everything on earth every millisecond. The changes don't happen fast. They happen extremely slow and can only be measured when viewing the past millions of years. If the earth was 6000 years old (which it's factually not...you could go to the local museum and find something that is proven older), I wouldn't think things can evolve from nothing either.
Talk about someone honing in on ONE thing I said and completely ignoring everything else.
So lets take this apart.
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A book is not a living thing. A book doesn't mutate and reproduce...
Do you believe there are germs around you? Do you believe there are single celled organisms?
Do you believe things can be born with mutations? Do you think things can reproduce? Do you think things can pass on mutations to their offspring?
Yes, we do have vestigial organs. Now, do we have intermediate forms? Why is it we've found so many more dinosaur fossils than we have intermediary forms between humans and monkeys. I mean, of the few forms that have supposedly been found, most can be attributed to an individual's deformity rather than a representation of a whole. I mean, you could look at some members of our current population and produce similar skeletons.
If evolution occurs over the course of millions of years, how do you explain a shift from cold bloodedness to warm bloodedness? The body of a warm blooded animal cannot function with organs of a cold blooded animal and vice versa. How would a change that occurs over millions of years change something that would require an instant and complete change or would result in instant death?
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Most importantly, do you believe earth is 6000 years old? If so...I can see why you don't believe in evolution. If a person is trapped in a room with no windows or lights for their entire life - from birth, by themselves, they would think it's pitch black everywhere. If someone came into their pitch black room with no windows that they have been living in for 30 years and some how communicated with them and told them you could see things with your eyes when you leave this place, the person would deny it.
As for my belief on the age of the earth, I've stated that I believe it's existed for much longer than the biblical creation story exists, TWICE. Please read before you post. My reference to the library was a comparison to the big bang, not to evolution. As far as we've been able to see, the big bang, if it happened,resulted in no other planet with conditions conducive to the existence of life as we know it. What are the odds of that happening?
This post was edited by Subdue on Sep 8 2010 04:14pm